Massachusetts lawmakers take long vacations while others work hard

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Just bundle up a little bit and get some of those um you know, get those lungs working, get some fresh air in there and uh and get a little walk in. Um anyway, uh welcome to the program and um we got word this morning, midm morning, that Presley, the Congresswoman, Democrat Congresswoman, one of the one of the the squad members who resides here of course in uh in Massachusetts, is not going to seek the Democrat that nomination to challenge Ed Marky. Now, I'm sure that um is good news to you. I I I think that had Ayanna Presley declared her candidacy for that um for that position, she would have won. I think she would have cleaned the clean the tables and I think that would have been it. And I think she would have won easily and we don't need um Ayanna Presley hanging around in in the Senate when too it's bad enough we got her in the House. But um so that's good news. Presley announcing this morning that she will seek re-election to the seventh congressional district instead. Um Presley said in her statement that the um encouragement she received from voters across the state was quote deeply humbling. That is encouragement to run for the US Senate. Of course, [clears throat] she also emphasized that the timing was not right for statewide bid with her daughter entering her final year at home before college. Presley emphasized that she wanted to be present for key family moments which would be complicated by a Senate bid. Now, I can understand that. It makes sense. Um, it would be an honor to serve the whole Commonwealth, but with our daughter in her last year at home before college and a district that has been in the crosshairs of this White House, I am certain that the Massachusetts 7th is where I belong in this moment, Presley added. Presley told the Boston Globe that she was not closing the door on a future Senate run. I'm not closing the door to a Senate run down the line, she told the Globe. The race already features Congressman Seth Molton, who has sought to draw generational contrast with the 79year-old Senator Marky, who will be 80 by election day. Suffach University Boston Globe poll released before Thanksgiving showed that Marky leads Molton 45 to 22% among likely Democratic primary voters. And Mark has been racking up the endorsements, too. I mean, he's been racking him up for a while because he he knew that he was going to face some opposition from his own party. So, he's been uh he's been banking those uh those endorsements. when Presley was included in the hypothetical matchup, she narrowly defeated Marky 35 to 34% with Molton falling to 16%. So, but I I think it would have been hers to win uh or hers to lose, I guess you can say, had she decided to get in. But, um don't have to worry about that now. Having Ed Marky in the um in the Senate is bad enough. Maybe she'll challenge Liz Warren when her re-election comes up in a couple of years. So, I wrote a piece just before Thanksgiving at wbsm.com and our Facebook page and other social media outlets that we uh that we frequent with our material. And um many Massachusetts residents, many of you guys were stunned. The the the things that we write go statewide. Actually, they go regionwide. Sometimes they even go nationwide uh through um uh Newsbreak and and other things. So, you get you get reactions from all over the place. But many folks were stunned by the fact that the Massachusetts state legislature is on a six-w week paid vacation right now. They broke just before the holiday and they'll be off until January, late January. And um and they get paid for this. A lot of folks didn't know that. This is something that's been going on. Somebody wrote, "Yeah, since the dawn of time." Well, yeah, exactly. Doesn't make it right. Um because there are a lot of unfinished items. some well yeah they meet in informal session but just going to yeah you can meet in informal session absolutely but that means um you only need a very small handful of people on Beacon Hill to meet in informal session you can you can also hold committee hearings on bills that that's productive but by and large the overwhelming vast majority of lawmakers are not on Beacon Hill they're out on you know doing little junkets or you know just having fun doing whatever they want to and getting paid for it six weeks. But I wrote a piece that's up today on today's um today's feed if you check it out on wbsm.com. Again, uh check it out on Facebook. I love when you guys go to the Facebook page and and read these articles because um you leave comments and I love to read your piffy remarks. As Bill O'Reilly used to always say, piffy remarks. I love your piffy remarks. Um, so when I wrote the piece of some of the folks that did leave pathy remarks, Michael and and actually several others um commented, "Must be nice." And yeah, when you think about that, must be nice because you're working you are working to pay for their six week vacation. and um you don't get a six week vacation, but yet you pay you work your ass off to pay for their six week vacation, right? Must be nice, huh? Um John wrote, "When was the last time the average Joe got a six week paid vacation or paid holiday vacation?" Scott wrote, "Well, at least they won't do any damage for six weeks." David didn't understand what all the fuss was about. He said, and I quote, "So, just like they've done for a hundred years or more." Well, before we had all these chronically unhappy Karens. Cool. He wrote, "But I don't think John I don't think uh what was his name? I'm sorry. Um David, I don't think David really understands what a Karen is. That's that's that's not being a Karen. That's not being a Karen at all. Karen is somebody who claims there are too many white people on the football team or um you know too many uh Indians uh not enough Chiefs or you know whatever that's a Karen Karen's complain about craziness. Um the flag is offensive that's a Karen. Um no kings that's a Karen. Um, hands off. That's a carrot. No, those are carrots. Or or people to get in your face and tell you that you shouldn't do this. You shouldn't do that. You shouldn't be walking your dog here. DON'T YOU SEE THE SIGN OVER THERE SAYS do not walk the dogs? I'm going to get my cell phone and I'm going to call the police on you. And those are cars. But when somebody points out that elected officials are taking six weeks vacation annually on the taxpayer when you know the taxpayer doesn't get 6 weeks vacation that's not being a Karen got to send you to Karen school David you know David is correct though the holiday season evacuation of Beacon Hill is nothing do. But to an average Joe like John, it can seem excessive, especially when he and the rest of taxpaying citizens in the People's Republic of Moraley are paying for it. But the purpose of my story today is to inform you because I was shocked again by the the reaction that so many folks just didn't even know this was going on. This isn't the only time of the year that the legislature gets a lengthy vacation on you, the taxpayer. They also get the entire month of August off. The whole month of August. Do you get the month of August and you go back to work September, October into November and then get six weeks? Paid vacation. Yeah, it's June. full pay, full benefits on you. Interestingly enough, the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, or MYRA, fullthroated supporter of the summer break. This month-long August recess isn't just a vacation. It's a time for legislators to reconnect with their communities, says Meer. They attend local events, meet with constituents, and focus on issues that matter to the people that they represent, says Meerra. Now, many of us call that nights and weekends, right? Because isn't that what we do on nights and weekends? We connect with reconnect with our communities. Whether it be, you know, uh going to open house at school, whether it be taking kids to practice, whether it be, you know, whatever other activities they or you are involved in. I mean, catching up with the family, you know, taking Nana to get her um you know, to get her uh uh her doctor's visits or or whatever, the groceries, what that's that's catching up with our constituents in our in our community, right? We do that at night and on the weekend. We don't need the entire month of August to do that. Well, we could use it, but we don't get it because nobody's going to pay us for it. And then six weeks at the holidays. How easy it would be to Christmas shop if you had six weeks off at the holidays, huh? No stress at all there. Get that turkey ready for Thanksgiving. Wow. Draft formal and informal legislative sessions during the course of the year. The main difference between the two are the rules primarily and the procedures and the type of business that is conducted. I put up a link to um on the story um instatrack.com and it breaks down the whole process and the difference between um what is formal session and an informal session is but the the major difference is that during a formal session you got to have a quorum that means most members of the house most members of the Senate have to be present in order to vote you got to have debate You got to have a quorum. You got to um and all of that kind of stuff, right? Your votes are all recorded for posterity, although nobody ever tells us how they vote. Don't you wish the state house um on its website or the legislator's website would have a uh a link where you can go and see how your lawmakers voted on various things because it's tough to find out sometimes. And if you call them and ask them, you don't always get a return call. That's for sure. During informal sessions, you don't need a quorum. All you need is one person. Just one person. One Democrat or one Republican can stand up and object to a bill and that's the end of the bill. There are no formal votes recorded. It's um all those in favor say I. All oppose say nay. Oh, the eyes have it. Nothing's written down. So, they can do some sneaky crap during these informal sessions if they want to, and they have in the past. Yeah, during the course of the time that the legislature actually does work, typically informal sessions are held each Monday and Thursday with formal sessions scheduled. In addition um to and in place of informal sessions, uh leadership can schedule an informal session at any time such as when lawmakers are on hiatus in August during the and during the holidays. So most days that they are up on Beagle Hill. They're not in formal session. I mean, some folks might have the idea that these guys drag ass up to Boston every day just like you do to the mill or to wherever it is that you work and they're actually in session debating laws all day. That's not the truth. At least two days of the week, they are in formal session, which means they don't even have to be there unless you've got a committee hearing um or something. You don't even need to be there. That's Monday and Thursday. And um you know, the other days, sometimes you're in session, formal session, sometimes you're not. And it is so rare to see the speaker and the president even appear in the chamber. Almost never do you see them. So, I had a little bit of a a dust up with Senator um Kelly Duner. She won't talk to me now. Kelly Duner back in um gez I don't even remember when earlier this year anyway um you know Karen Spilker the Senate president made an extremely rare visit to the Senate to the you know to the floor of the Senate uh in order to call Trump a Nazi and Kelly Duner joined everybody in the Senate and stood up and gave her a standing ovation. It's like what the hell you doing? That's your party leader. That's your national leader. Um you supposedly support him. why are you giving her a standing ovation? Well, we exchanged some um some um few texts and uh she said, "Well, I'm just showing respect. You know, that's that's something we do up here in Boston and they don't do in Washington. We show respect for each other." Dude just stood on the floor and called your president a Nazi and you stand up and give her a standing ovation. That's showing respect. Well, Senator Duner and I had regularly scheduled um appearances on this program pre-arranged. She did a couple of them, but that was it. See, this is the problem with these folks. They're so damn thin skinned. You can't criticize them. They just won't come on the radio anymore. I don't give a damn. You know what? If Kelly Dumer never ever appears on this radio show again, my life doesn't change. Doesn't change. Perhaps hers doesn't either. Excuse [clears throat] me. But she gets more out of being on this radio program than I get from having her on the program because she gets to speak to the thousands of people that listen to this program every day. So if she's that thin skinned she can't put up with a little bit of criticism, then she I'm, you know, I'm I'm totally glad that she chose not to come on. Again, it's she she she gains a hell of a lot more than I do by having her here. She's in the studio. I got to look nice, right? I look nice every day, man. So, speaking about the Massachusetts legislature, um another piece I just posted on wbsm.com today. It's up there and it's on Facebook and everything else and it's already on fire on the Facebook page. Uh, but the Massachusetts legislature is waiting into the debate over reparations for slavery. That's what our lawmakers are doing. You can't afford to buy a house. Um, you can't get an audit of the legislature. You can't afford your energy bills, highways, bridges, everything falling down all around you. that the Massachusetts legislature has time to discuss reparations for slavery. The legislaturator's joint committee on the judiciary uh recently held a hearing on a proposal to create a commission to study reparations and an apology for slavery on your behalf. Do you want the Massachusetts legislature apologizing on your behalf for slavery? I did you keep slaves? Did you own any slaves? Were you a slave? Was your mother a slave? Was your father a slave? The answer to all of those questions is most likely no, right? You you weren't a slave. Your mother wasn't a slave. Your father wasn't a slave. Your grandparents probably weren't slaves either, unless you're very old. You've never kept slaves, never endorsed slave labor, never sold another human being. So why is this your your issue? Why is this your business? Why is your state lawmaker, why is Tony Cabraw and uh and Chris Hendricks and Chris Marky and all of the rest of the delegation, the new gentleman from Fair Haven, his name slips in my mind, Mark Sylvia, I believe his name is. Um, why are all of these people going to when when they are at work? I mean, you know, when the when the six week paid vacation for the holidays is over and they climb back up to the top of Beacon Hill, why isn't their business to deal with slavery in the US hundreds of years ago? Is there nothing more pressing if we had slavery currently? If we had survivors in our Commonwealth who had been slaves, might be a different story. I don't want the Massachusetts legislature apologizing for me for anything. I think they're a bunch of crooks. I don't want anybody in Boston speaking for me. I can speak for myself. Thank you. But I don't know any slaves. You know, I think everyone in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who was held a slave as a slave should be given money. Give them money. Everybody in Massachusetts that was held as a slave should be given money. You know, this is a dumb idea anyway for those who are pushing this. This is being pushed by uh radical African-American groups. Um some mainstream African-American folks. All of the Karens love it. All of the white guilt people love it, too. They love There's something we got to do. We got to settle the score. We got to So, let me ask you, you you you take somebody that um was never a slave. The parents were never slave. The grandparents were never slave. And maybe even the great-grandparents were never slaves. and you write him a check. How much? And how do you determine whether anybody in their ancestry was ever a slave? How do you determine that? Can you prove it? And and how much do you give them? Who determines who is eligible and how much they qualify for? But you know, for years and years and years, we've, you know, talked about the Holocaust. Never forget. We can't forget. Can't never forget. Can't never forget. There are things that happen in our in our lives, in our histories that we you just can't forget. You got to learn from it, and you got to continue to learn from it. Sometimes you got to, you know, you got, you just got to uh We didn't write checks to Holocaust survivors. Why not? Well, first of all, they didn't ask for it. Second of all, they really wouldn't be deserving of it. But think about this for a moment. You write a check to a Holocaust survivor and issue an apology or you write a check to the ancestor uh or somebody whose ancestors were were slaves here in America. Write him a check. Here you go. Here's your check. Now go to Best Buy and get a TV or whatever the hell you want to do with it. And you issue an apology, which is meaningless because it's all politics anyway. It's all politics. These people are as as shallow and as hollow on Beacon Hill as you're going to get, right? Yes. They're going to apologize for something that they had nothing to do with, something that you had nothing to do with, and they're going to write you a check, and then it's over. It's over. You once you accept an apology and you accept a check, you have no rights to at all about slavery anymore. You have no rights to talk about it. We settled that score. We wrote you a check, remember? See that big screen TV hanging on the wall? Oo, a 60-in one. That's a nice one. It's over. Don't talk to me about it anymore. It's done. So, this is another way of whitewashing history, right? whitewashing history from from the liberals on the left that want to destroy statues and and everything else that want to rewrite history that want to eradicate Native Americans in Massachusetts by wiping their likeness off the state flag and the state logo and the state seal. Now they want to pay off members of the black community in Massachusetts who were never directly or otherwise affected by slavery. And when they do, that's it. The issue is dead. We don't talk about it anymore. So this um legislation that's pending right now would create a commission. So many people would be appointed by the governor. Uh so many people would be appointed by Karen Spilka. So many people by the house speaker and so on and so forth. and they would study um how we pay these people, who gets paid and and how much and um and how we go about apologizing because there is nothing better to do with their time when they are not on August recess or a six week paid holiday vacation. 5089960500, thanks for hanging on. You're next in WBSM. Hey Barry. Um 98.5% of Caucasians in this country are not direct ancestors of slave owners. So let's start right there. >> They've done studies on this in the past. The amount of people who are directly tied to slaves is less than 10%. Because keep in mind posts slavery when the civil war ended and was abolished that is when the majority of of minorities migrated from Africa from Jamaica and from other countries to the United States. So they're what they're doing is they're pulling everything in California. It's one big it's one big circle jerk scam. Okay. It's wealth it's wealth distribution to to to leftist groups tied to African-Americans. That's what this is. It's it's just in some sense it's similar to Black Lives Matter shaking people down so five or six lesbian women can own $90 million and spend send it what they want. Okay. That's what this is, you know, and and then hire the committee. We're going to hire this reparations committee. Barry, you already know this committee is going to be comprised of complete hacks and they're going to claim a study. No, what they're going to do is they're going to warp the facts. Because if we really want to discuss slavery, let's talk about the original indentured servant slaves that came to the United States of America. And that is Irish women and children who were came here and were forced to work as slaves or indentured servants if you want to call it that. They won't go there. This is a shakeddown barrel. You can easily tell how much of a shakedown this is. >> Yeah, of course it is. It's all it's all politically motivated. And what about the the so-called Native Americans who are not native, but the Indians? I still call them the Indians. Friends I know who are Indian have no problem with that. They call themselves Indians. So, um what about the Indians? So, when do we start writing checks for the Indians? >> Yeah. Well, let me give you example. We'll we'll play this game. You'll do little reparations. Here's here's here's the here's the money we're going to give you minus taxes minus all the programs in the last 50 to 60 years that we've given from uh all these minority programs free college all this all this stuff then we're going to subtract all the all the all the destruction you've caused riots murder crime we're going to do all that by the time we get to the end here's your$150 that's how I want to play this game because this whole thing is a scam it's a scam in California they know in California they don't got that type of money. We ain't got a billion dollars to hand out but they're doing it Barry for political reasons and to get these people to it's Democrats do this all the time. It's a it's a bait and switch. That's basically what it is. They're trying to tell you they they want they want to stop they care about slavery when they don't because it was Democrats that actually were basically pro-slaver to begin with. >> Thank you my friend. Appreciate it. 5089960500. Let me do a break. What do you think about reparations and an official apology on behalf of the Massachusetts citizens for slavery? This is something they are actually dealing with on Beacon Hill right now. We're coming right back after this. Stay tuned. >> This is the story of [music] the one. As a maintenance supervisor at a manufacturing facility, he knows keeping the line up and running is a top priority. [music] That's why he chooses Gringanger. 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Although some people put their their Christmas lights up on their house the day after Halloween, but that's okay. Christmas season is when it affects you most. When you think it's Christmas season and you need a little Christmas, like the song says, and you want to put your lights and your tree up, knock yourself out. That's that's your call. And um um but yeah, short uh short official Christmas season. Christmas season started what on Friday the day after Thanksgiving. Um the official Christmas season and Saturday driving around throughout Rhode Island and Massachusetts and saw uh many many cars with with Christmas trees tied to the roof. So that's great. It's a great season. It's late. Even if you're not religious at all and you still celebrate Christmas, um, and you say, "Well, Barry, how can you celebrate Christmas if you're not a Christian?" Well, you know what? You celebrate, you can celebrate Christmas. You can celebrate Christmas if you like. I mean, there there is the um secular and non-seular Christmas. I mean, this is an official government holiday. It it's recognized uh not as a religious holiday necessarily, but a federal holiday in Massachusetts and all over the rest of the country. U but it is also of course a a a very important religious observance. So um yeah there's both you you can be non-Christian and still put up a tree and um you know still have the spirit. Anyway, I like to celebrate anybody's holidays. Any reason to celebrate is is fine with me, right? Um all right, so we're talking about the the Massachusetts legislature. Um and and again, so many folks were stunned to learn that the legislature gets six weeks paid vacation uh for the holidays. They go back to work in January. And um so I wrote another piece today explaining that they also get the whole month of August off as well. And that's that's paid for. So that's what another four uh weeks in August. Well, five weeks, four and a half weeks in August. and then six weeks at the holidays. That's like 10 and a half weeks maybe. Um, paid vacation on you. How many weeks vacation do you get at your job? I'm curious. Uh, if you you may not even get vacation time. You may have to take days off that are unpaid. Um, or maybe you might get five days. If you're real lucky, you'll get 10 days. Um, two weeks, right? A lot of people don't get vacation, but you pay for the Massachusetts legislature to get the entire month of August and six weeks at the holidays, full pay, full benefits, and everything. Um and that led to um a discussion about reparations because when the lawmakers go back to work in January, there is legislation pending that would um call for the creation of a commission to study reparations for slavery and issue a formal apology on your behalf on behalf of the people of Massachusetts for slavery. And a lot of folks, you know, it's it's easy. This one's an easy one, right? Because the radicals that support this, well, if you disagree with it and you don't think it's a good idea, you're racist. Got to be a racist, right? Um, so it's an easy tag and it's very difficult for some people to stand up and say, "Well, no, I'm not a racist. I just don't think this is right." But you got to do that. You got to stand up and you got to say, "This is not right." Or, "Explain to me why it is right. Why do you think it is right that we should offer reparations and um and a formal apology to folks on behalf of uh the people of Massachusetts for slavery when none of us that are alive today had anything to do with slavery? 5089 60500. You're up next on WBSM. >> Hello. >> Hi. >> Hey. Are they doing any hiring? I could use a good job getting six weeks vacation. >> I I didn't understand you sir. Are they doing any hiring? Because I can use six weeks vacation. >> Oh, see the legislature. Well, just run for office. There you go. >> I will I will definitely run for office. >> Yeah, run for office and get elected to um which is no harder than any other job. Everybody, oh, it's so hard to run. You know, you spend your day out there shaking hands and knocking on doors. It's hard work, but it's no harder than digging holes, right? >> I'll probably do a better job than they are, that's for sure. >> [laughter] >> And you get six weeks at the holidays and four weeks in August. >> Well, you know, even with those six weeks, I will still work for them. [clears throat] >> I just wanted to call them. >> Yeah, they they I mean, they got to have time to go out and meet people, right? That's um that's what they do. They got to have time to go and meet people like we have to do on nights and weekends and and our days off, right? All right. I got to get the last break in for the hour. 5089960500. Stay with us. Got a whole lot more coming up. Do you support the Massachusetts legislature on the issue of reparations, forming a commission to study reparations and an apology for slavery? Do you support that? Or do you think that's it's it's buying votes is what it is. It's trying to secure votes. You know, you saw this happen in the last presidential election, even the one before that. The black vote is slowly but surely moving away from the Democrats and it is moving to the other side of the aisle and this is a way to bring some of that back. Hey, remember you know um we voted to give you a big screen TV. That's the sad part about this is because if you give people checks, right, what are they going to do with them? some people will be responsible and put it in the bank or maybe, you know, help their kids out or do something, you know, put it toward their mortgage or whatever. Maybe buy a house, I don't know. But, um, I think the overwhelming vast majority of people would run to Best Buy and buy a piece of junk that in 3 years will be sitting on the curb out there waiting for the trash man to pick it up. And that's they sold their history and they sold their legacy for a reparations check. Think about this. 5089960500. We'll come right >> through [music] the store. Dave's looking. >> I know. I'm putting them back. >> Hey Dave, here's [music] a tip. Put scratchers on your list. >> Oh, scratchers. Good idea. >> It's an easy shopping trip. We're glad we could assist. Thanks random singing people. >> So be like Dave and give the gift of players [music] from the lottery. A little >> please play responsibly. Must be 18 years or older to purchase player claim. AI agents are everywhere automating tasks and making decisions at machine speed. But agents make [music] mistakes. Just one rogue agent can do big damage before you even notice. 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There's a Civil War memorial, also known as the um soldiers and sailors monument at the Klaskkey Common Park back on July 4th, 1866, a year, not even a year after the end of the Civil War. Yeah, just over a year because the civil war ended in April of ' 65, but just over a year that monument was dedicated here in New Bedford and the monument is dedicated to those from New Bedford who quote unquote fell defending their country in the struggle with slavery and treason. That speaks louder than a check to me, right? And New Bedford has celebrated um its history. It's proud history. And June 2023, New Bedford dedicated abolition Row Park with the statue of Frederick Douglas. Frederick Douglas House is included. It's all part of the new abolition Row Historic District. That speaks louder than a check to go buy a TV at Best Buy to me. Anyway, it's my thought on it. 508996 >> AI agents are everywhere automating tasks and making decisions at machine speed, but agents make mistakes. 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